Justice After Stonewall

Dr Paul Behrens is Reader (Associate Professor) in Law at the University of Edinburgh Law School, UK. He is Member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Scottish Parliament on Ending Conversion Practices and has published several books on international law. Sean Becker previously taught as a docent at the University of Amsterdam’s PPLE College. He is currently pursuing postgraduate studies at Columbia Law School, New York, and the University of Amsterdam.

Foreword Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon Introduction 1. From Stonewall to the World: The Difficult Path to Recognition Paul Behrens and Sean Becker Part 1 – Justice After Stonewall? Aspects of Political and Social Acceptance 2. Challenges Past and Present: Political and Social Perspectives Sean Becker and Paul Behrens 3. The Development of the LGBT+ Community in the UK in the Last 50 Years Sir Stephen Wall 4. LGBT+ Youth Homelessness as a Consequence of Progress Carin Tunåker 5. The LGBTI Movement Organising in a Time of Peril: A Case Study of Uganda Clare Byarugaba 6. 'That's Really Why I Got Married I Guess': Heteronormativity and Openness about Same-Sex Coupledom Dora Jandrić Part 2 – LGBT Rights Facing New Challenges 7. A Landscape of Change: Legal Perspectives Paul Behrens and Sean Becker 8. The Evolution of LGBT Rights in the UK: Is the Tide Starting to Turn? Carolynn Gray 9. In the Name of the People? Plebiscites, Referendums and Same-Sex Marriage Paul Behrens 10. The Intrinsic Value of Registered Partnerships and Marriage for Same-Sex Couples, Their Recognition Domestically and at the Strasbourg Court Helen Fenwick and Andy Hayward 11. Changing Perceptions of Homosexuality as Revealed by the Law of Defamation in Scotland Kenneth McK. Norrie 12. 'Lewd, Disgusting and Offensive': A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Law Lords' Ideologies Toward Homosexuality between 1967 and 2004 Sean Becker Part 3 – The Continued Struggle for Equality: LGBT Students, Identity and Language 13. Living Identity: Perspectives from the Fields of Education and Language Sean Becker and Paul Behrens 14. Embedding LGBT Equality in the Curriculum and the Classroom Eleanor Capaldi and Amanda Sykes 15. Investigating the Experiences of Transgender Students in Higher Education in the UK – Pilot Study Lynne Regan 16. Queerly Fluent / Fluently Queer: On (Re)Creating Shared Identities in Second and Third Languages Among Migrant LGBTQ Populations in the Arabian Peninsula Gaar Adams Part 4 – Between Disenfranchisement and Inclusion: The LGBT Community and the Medical Sector 17. Changing Science and the Science of Change: Medical Perspectives Paul Behrens and Sean Becker 18. Disenfranchisement in British Healthcare: Being a Lesbian Non-Biological Mother Lucille Kelsall-Knight and Ceri Sudron 19. False Therapy, Real Harm: Aspects of Conversion Practices and their Evaluation Paul Behrens Part 5 – Faith and Justice: Religion and the LGBT Community 20. Between Understanding and Inclusion: Religious Perspectives Paul Behrens and Sean Becker 21. Jewish Approaches to LGBT+ in Texts, Culture and Ritual Rabbi Mark L. Solomon and Hannah Holtschneider 22. Tradition and Transition: Methodological Approaches to LGBT Issues in Roman Catholic Theology After Pope Francis Nicolete Burbach 23. Is there a Space to Fight Back? Exclusionary Queer and Islamic Spaces and Resistance from Queer Muslims Drew Dalton Concluding Thoughts 24. Stonewall at Fifty: Between Hope and Challenge Sean Becker and Paul Behrens